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Carl Higbie used his platform on Carl Higbie FRONTLINE to deliver a blunt message: America needs a shared set of values if the country is to survive as a free and prosperous nation. His show has positioned itself explicitly to fight for American values and to call out the elites who cheer on division rather than unity.
Higbie reminded viewers that patriotism and assimilation into the American civic project are not insults but necessities — learning English, respecting the Constitution, and embracing the rule of law form the glue that holds a nation together. He’s not just mouthing slogans; the program’s framing has consistently focused on personal liberty, security, and government transparency as the core of those shared values.
This is the commonsense stance most Americans once took for granted, and it’s refreshing to hear it spoken plainly instead of buried under pundit-speak or academic euphemisms. For years, institutions from our schools to our corporate elites have celebrated multicultural fragmentation while discouraging assimilation into a unifying civic identity. That experiment has failed spectacularly in everything from civic literacy to national cohesion.
What Higbie is forcing on the table is a hard question the left has refused to answer: what does it mean to be American, and who is accountable for passing that identity on? Conservatives should stop apologizing for insisting that newcomers adopt American norms rather than the other way around. Demanding respect for our flag, our language, and our laws is not xenophobia — it’s patriotism.
Policy follows culture, and that means concrete steps: expanded civics education, English-language requirements tied to naturalization, and a refusal to fund programs that promote separatist identities over the national one. If we allow federal and local governments to subsidize perpetual foreign enclaves and curriculum that teaches allegiance to tribes instead of country, we won’t have a united electorate or a secure republic.
Higbie’s background as a veteran who has served this country gives weight to his warnings, and conservative media should amplify that kind of message rather than letting it be dismissed by the coastal elites. The left’s project has been to turn Americans into a collection of competing identity groups; conservatives must dismantle that narrative by reasserting the timeless principles that made this country great.
Americans who still believe in freedom, hard work, and the rule of law should take Higbie’s call seriously and turn it into action at the ballot box and in school boards, city halls, and state legislatures. Restoring assimilation into a shared civic culture is not radical — it is the only realistic path back to national unity and a flourishing, free society.
